Name check
Is your company name already in the register? Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company in the KBO register already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector. Trademarks and domain names are checked separately.
“EXPO2D”
An active company already has this name
The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.
Also pick your activity to see whether a similar name exists in your own sector.
What this check does and does not say
- We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
- This is not a trademark search and not legal advice on using the name. A name that is not in the register can still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the official registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
- A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.
Same or very similar names
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Grimbergen · since 2004
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2016
Names that resemble it 20 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Londerzeel · since 1975
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Groothandel in aanhangwagens, opleggers en caravans · Londerzeel · since 1986
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Abbreviation of Jeugdhuis Expo · Sint-Truiden · since 2014
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Full-service restaurants · since 2011
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Name of an establishment of GEERIT · Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · Antwerpen · since 2007
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Manufacture of other wood products · since 2008
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since 1984
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Design and construction of stages and sets · Malle · since 2019
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Abbreviation of Exploitation Point of sales · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Courcelles · since 2011
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Land surveying · Ieper · since 2007
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Name of an establishment of I.C.K. · Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 1977
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Other business support services · Antwerpen · since 1993
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Name of an establishment of HUGO · Cafés and bars · Hasselt · since 1996
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Nivelles · since 1998
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Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · Geel · since 2013
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Abbreviation of VERENIGING VOOR ORGANISATIE EN BEHEER VAN TEENTOONSTELLINGEN · Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 2015
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Office administrative and support services · Antwerpen · since 2005
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Full-service restaurants · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 2024
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Aarschot · since 1993
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Cafés and bars · Leuven · since 2006